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Centennial, Colo. – An Indian Land-based mortgage professional has been recognized in a list of the industry’s most influential individuals.

Mortgage Professional America magazine just released its fifth annual Hot 100 report, featuring Casey Crawford, co-founder and CEO of Movement Mortgage, as one of the major power players heating up the mortgage world.

The developers of Indian Land’s RedStone retail development said they have signed three more restaurants to the project’s growing list of businesses.

Charlotte’s MPV Properties announced last week that it had recently signed leases for Tropical Smoothie Café and Jackson’s Java, and sold a 1-acre outparcel fronting Charlotte Highway to Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers.

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KERSHAW – The old Springs Mills property isn’t inside the corporate limits of Kershaw, but town officials are still trying to get it ready for future development.

The town is now working with the Catawba Council of Governments (COG), the county and the property owners to get the 9.1-acre tract assessed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Task Force.

Rebound Behavioral Health, which treats chemical dependency and mental illness in adults, has begun offering overnight lodging to the company's day patients.

Dan Anderson, Rebound’s director of business development, said the “partial hospitalization program” at the facility near Van Wyck will help patients focus on recovery rather than dealing with transportation issues or the distraction of a dysfunctional home.

Indian Land’s Cross Creek shopping center has grown steadily since Publix opened there in late 2012, and now four new businesses are set to open at the center in the coming months.

Under construction on three outparcels at the front of the shopping center are an NTB auto-care shop, an Arby’s restaurant and a Doctors Care medical offices, said York Development Group owner Doug Baumgartner.

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